Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-05
STRONG'S STATEMENT
Proves Very Damaging to
the Southern Pacific.
HE MAKES CHARGES OF FRAUD,
And Talks of Very Queer Proceed
ings Connected with Work
i'm the Foothills.
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San Francisco, August 4.-Daniel
w. Strong, of San Diego, testified be-
fore the Pacific Railway Commission
this morning that he was one of the
original Board of Directors of the
Central Pacific, but declared that no
one had anything to do with the man.
agement of the company but Hunt
ington, Hopkins, Crocker, Stanford
and Miller. The witness stated that
they ran things regardless of the opin-
ions of the majority of the Board, and
there seemed to be a disposition on
their part to take advantage Of the
stock subscribers. He concluded to
resign, and made application for the
stock he had subscribed for, but said
he never received any and never made
any efforts through the courts to get
back his interest in the company.
Witness cited what he claimed to be
sPo0iii' iio'st&ieoo VI ii""".
THE FooTHILL SUBSIDY.
A letter written by Strong was also
produced before the Commissioner, in
which he stated that during the con-
struction of the road through the
Sierras Stanford and Crocker swore
to an affidavit that the foothills COM
menced at Arcade creek instead of at
Dry creek, as laid down by T. d.
Judah and himself, who was the chief
assistant. Witness claimed that the
subsidy was $4,000 per mile for the
foothill section, distance of 221a
miles. Huntington Il Company's
affidavit, which Judah refused to sign,
as well as himself, gave $32 900 per
mile, while there was not a cut or
filling of three feet in the whole dis
tance. Strong stated further in regard
to his refusal to sign the affidavit con-
cerning the location of the foothills.
81 did decline to sign that affidavit.
/ think either Huntington or Croker
asked me to sign it. was asked to
sign it shortly before the construction
was commenced. 1t was while was
director that / was asked to testify
that the land was foothill, when / had
already testified that it was valley
land. l simply refused"
Strong was asked for papers to YER
ify these statements. which he prom
ised to produce. Strong also denied
having received several sums of money
amounting to nearly 10000, the pay
ment of which was credited on the
company's balance sheet in 1864.
AN EX-BOoKKEEPER.
John Miller, First Secretary of the
Contract and Finance Company, was
also witness before the Commission
this afternoon. He testified that he
was now a farmer at Walnut Grove in
Sacramento county, and had been ap-
pointed Secretary to the Contract and
Finance Company in 1873. On his
appointment w. L. Brown gave him a
new set of books to keep, and the old
books disappeared one afternoon when
he was at lunch, and he had never
seen them since. He had some men,
oranda which he had taken from
the old books, but had given them
to Judge N. Greene Curtis, of Sacra-
mento, to keep, but had once told him
to burn them. He was not sure that
the Judge had done so. Later Mr.. Mil
ler said that he had accidentally met
the Judge, who remarked to him that
it was a good thing for the company
that he had destroyed those memo
randa.
Mr.. Miller said he had a "private
idea" why those books disappeared.